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We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
Hey Resorts World Las Vegas: It's wrong to treat all hackers as dangerous, and to attempt to penalize people just for owning the tools of the trade. These tools have productive uses, as demonstrated by the massive convention of professional security researchers taking place. #DEFCON32
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Hotel to Search Rooms During DEF CON Hacking Conference
“As you may or may not know, a well-known hacking convention will be held in Las Vegas during your stay,” Resorts World Las Vegas writes. “We...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
Victims of human rights abuses enabled by powerful surveillance technologies must be able to seek redress through U.S. courts against both foreign and domestic corporations, we told the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  
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EFF to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Shield Foreign Spyware Company from Human Rights Accountability in U.S. Court
Legal intern Danya Hajjaji was the lead author of this post.EFF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit supporting...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
What's Certbot? It's EFF's free, open source tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certificates on millions of domains across the web. It's also part of a growing number of EFF technology projects designed to protect your freedom online. Help support this work today!
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Defend Privacy and Free Speech
We're building a better web together. Donate to help out Certbot and all of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's public interest software develo...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
Digital spaces enable LGBTQ+ people to engage with their gender and sexual orientation, but it can be daunting to give up any kind of privacy online while doing so. Here's a guide to protecting your identities online, from using a VPN to obscuring faces. 
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Beyond Pride Month: Protecting Digital Identities For LGBTQ+ People
The internet provides people space to build communities, shed light on injustices, and acquire vital knowledge that might not otherwise be availabl...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
Lawmakers should focus on advancing measures protecting user privacy and encouraging greater competition, rather than harming users’ ability to speak online.
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It’s Time For Lawmakers to Listen to Courts: Your Law Regulating Online Speech Will Harm Internet Users’ Free Speech Rights
Despite a long history of courts ruling that government efforts to regulate speech online harm all internet users and interfere with their First Am...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
Net neutrality means that ISPs don’t get to speed up or slow down your web traffic based on what site you’re visiting. The FCC understood this in 2015, yet left the door open for the creation of fast lanes in their new rules. Tell them to fix this mistake.
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Tell the FCC It Must Clarify Its Rules to Prevent Loopholes That Will Swallow Net Neutrality Whole
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released draft rules to reinstate net neutrality, with a vote on adopting the rules to come on the ...
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